Category Archives: Civil Rights

A Fortress from Self Pity: June Jordan and Fannie Lou Hamer

Posted on July 9, 2021 by wordcloud9

June Jordan (1936-2002) was born on July 9, 1936, in Harlem, New York, the only child of Jamaican immigrant parents. She was a poet, essayist, teacher, feminist, civil rights activist, and self-identified Bisexual. While the students at most of the schools … Continue reading →

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TCS: The Starless Midnight and the Bright Daybreak

Posted on January 18, 2021 by wordcloud9

. Good Morning! ______________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early riserson Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum,so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole inyour brainpan, feel free to add a comment. ______________________________ Justice in the … Continue reading →

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A Poem for Black Poetry Day

Posted on October 17, 2018 by wordcloud9

Coal  by Audre Lorde I Is the total black, being spoken From the earth’s inside. There are many kinds of open. How a diamond comes into a knot of flame How a sound comes into a word, coloured By who … Continue reading →

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Stephen Miller: demography sans democracy

Posted on October 16, 2017 by ann li-summers

  By ann summers Stephen “dont call me Space Cowboy Maurice” Miller has shrewdly used his time to feather his own WH nest by controlling immigration policy while his noisier counterpart Steve Bannon was fighting with everybody else. One can … Continue reading →

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What self-respecting Liberal talks about “zesty Internet memes”

Posted on September 3, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Coordination of a resistance must include being aware of how counter-resistance forces can manipulate and divide us, particularly in social media. America’s Number One Russophile, Lord Dampnut, has made us acutely aware of how clumsy such misdirection … Continue reading →

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Trump trapped by his own prevarications

Posted on August 19, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers   The protests against those protesting Confederate statuary removal are justified to eradicate the “… systematic propaganda campaign to advance the racial cause of the Confederacy”, despite Trump’s apparent and continued sympathy for it using false equivalence. … Continue reading →

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What Do People Mean When They Say I Want My Country Back?

Posted on August 14, 2017 by Steven D. Searls

Author’s Note: In light of the recent events in Charlottesville, Virginia, I’ve chosen to republish my essay dated March 29, 2015, originally entitled “What Do Conservatives Mean When They Say “I Want My Country Back?” Minor revisions have been made … Continue reading →

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